Madison Comprehensive High School

These former Mount Vernon News area high school standouts will be in action in the week starting Mon May 6.

These former Mount Vernon News area high school standouts will be in action in the week starting Mon April 29.

When Keegan Uhl gets a hot hand from deep, it is best to keep feeding her the ball. That’s exactly what the West Holmes Knights (15-6, 13-1) did in a 62-28 win over Madison Comprehensive (8-13, 4-10) on Feb. 8, and Uhl broke her own school record with nine threes.

The Mount Vernon wrestling team competed at the Maumee Bay Classic at Oregon Clay High School on Jan. 13, where Alex Taylor took home first place and the team placed 23rd out of 57.

Make it three straight wins for the West Holmes girls’ basketball team (7-4, 5-1), with the Zalina Proper going off for 28 points to lead the Knights to a 61-29 blowout win over Madison Comprehensive (3-9, 1-7) on Jan. 6.

The Ohio Cardinal Conference released their All-Conference selections and individual awards. The conference consists of high schools from Mount Vernon, Ashland, Lexington, Madison Comprehensive, Mansfield Senior, New Philadelphia, West Holmes and Wooster.

Lexington High School was well represented at this year’s Ohio Cardinal Conference cross country meet, with both the boys’ and girls’ teams winning conference titles.

Lexington and Madison Comprehensive squared off on Friday night on the gridiron and the Minutemen came away with a 31-21 win after trailing in the first half.

Madison Comprehensive (1-7, 1-4) made easy work of Mount Vernon (2-6, 1-4) on the gridiron on Friday, walking away with a 38-0 win for their first win of the season in convincing fashion.

Of 43 Central Ohio natives on college football rosters this week, 16 made game contributions to their teams. How did your favorite high school stars of yesterday perform on Saturday?

Eight Ohio Cardinal Conference football teams have games scheduled this week.

Mt. Vernon Yellowjackets(1-0) and seven other Ohio Cardinal Conference football teams are scheduled to play this week.

The Madison Comprehensive Rams (1-9) start the season against the Shelby Whippets (5-6) on Aug. 18 at Madison Comprehensive HS.